PrintBroadly speaking, one can divide Israel's actions in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime into two categories: (i) the incursion launched into al-Qunaytra and Deraa provinces along the border with the Golan Heights with the more specific aim of minimising the perceived threat of 'anarchy' to Israel's security, and (ii) the broader commitment to protecting the Syrian Druze minority and strengthening relations with it through airstrikes and threats of airstrikes for attacks on Syrian Druze, encouraging Syrian Druze to visit Druze holy sites in Israel, and providing medical treatment and aid for Druze recently wounded in the violence that has affected Jaramana, Ashrafiyat Sahnaya and the peripheries of al-Suwayda'. The Israeli actions and declared commitments to the Syrian Druze are partly the result of lobbying by Israeli Druze as well as a tendency among many Israeli policymakers to prefer a Syria that has a weak central government and is largely split into autonomous enclaves by religious sect and ethnicity.
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